Tony Finau first held up a trophy, victorious on the PGA Tour, in 2016 at the Puerto Rico Open at Coco Beach. Since that win, Finau has had 40 top-10 finishes, eight second-place finishes and five years without holding another trophy.
Only Louis Oosthuizen has had more runners-up finishes (11) than Finau among active players.
Finau broke that streak on Monday when he won the Northern Trust in a playoff against Cameron Smith after a rain-filled weekend that delayed his victory an extra day. For a moment, after hitting his approach in the bunker on 18 to close regulation, and after Smith had back-to-back birdies coming into the final hole, it seemed as though Finau might continue the trend and add to his rolling stat of runner-up finishes.